THIS ROLE IS OPEN FOR SPONSORED CANDIDATES
CANDIDATES WITHIN 25 MILES FROM MCLEAN, VA ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY
THIS ROLE REQUIRES THE DEVELOPER TO BE ONSITE (HYBRID), 3 DAYS A WEEK
THIS ROLE IS FOR A DIRECT CLIENT
Data Center Technician
Duration: 6 months. Opportunity for extension.
Location: Onsite (Hybrid) in McLean, VA on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Travel once a week to Ashburn, VA after 8:00pm required.
Years of experience: 4+
Must Haves: Installation of software in data center, troubleshooting cabling and connection issues, hands on installing gear in installation center.
Nice to have: Gigamon software and hardware
Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, and maintain the data center network infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand networking requirements and provide effective solutions.
- Attend daily/weekly project touch-point calls and provide regular project deployment and completion status.
- Site preparation: staging, "Rack and Stack", configuration, and product preparation.
- Monitor network performance, troubleshoot issues, and perform root cause analysis to resolve incidents promptly.
- Participate in capacity planning, network security and disaster recovery strategies and document relevant SOPs / Visio for network repositories.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 4+ years of relevant experience of working in datacenter environment.
- Understanding of routing protocols and switching protocols (BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, Spine-Leaf topology).
- Understanding of router/switch hardware knowledge, including troubleshooting skills and replacing components.
- Network troubleshooting skills, identifying and resolving issues in datacenter networks.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work well under pressure and in a team environment.
- Effective communication skills to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience in Gigamon is preferred.